MGT 524: RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS

ARTICLE ANNOTATION – GUIDELINES

This assignment requires you to read and annotate a mixed method research article. Use the below structure.
Your appropriate choice of article will receive 3 Marks.

Assignment Deliverables
Your final submission should include the:

• Completed Annotation in word format.

• Original Article in pdf format.

Please follow the same below structure with the same headings.

Annotation Format

Your article annotation should have four sections as described below:

Section 1 – Article Information Marks: 1

1. Title of the Article

2. Name of the Author(s)
3. Source of the Article
a. Journal Name
b. Publication Details – Year, Volume, Issue, and page nos.

Section 2 – Preliminary Analysis (one page) Marks: 4

1. Purpose of Research – summarize aim of the study and specific research objectives
2. Nature of Research – is the study exploratory, descriptive, causal?
3. Theoretical Framework – describe the model followed or proposed in the study
4. Conclusion – summarize the major findings of the study.

Section 3 – Methods & Empirics (one page) Marks 8

1. Research Method – describe in detail the research method used in this study.
If the author(s) does not discuss the research method in detail, or the explanation is not clear from the
article, please refer to external sources.
2. Data Collection
a. Identify the prime mode of data collection.
b. Describe the process of data collection.
c. Discuss the measuring instrument.
3. Sampling Technique
a. Identify the target population.
b. Describe the sampling technique.
c. Assess how well the sample represents the population.
4. Goodness of Measures & Analysis
a. Describe the efforts made by the researcher(s) to ensure reliability & validity of the study.
b. Describe the tools used for analyzing the data.
5. Provide detailed discussion on how the mixed method was used to achieve the objective of the research

Section 4 – Critical Review (half page) Marks: 4

Use this space to note your overall evaluation of the article. In your opinion, how good this article was compared to
other articles, either in the discipline/area, or in the same journal. You should also comment on the quality of the
article, that is, does it make up to the academic standards of writing, presentation, organization, source citation,
and such?